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Vodafone India has launched an international roaming pack which offers these services at 60 per cent reduced prices. Customers will not be required to pay multiple rentals while visiting various countries.

This offer is applicable across 40 countries on specific partner networks across the globe. The pack is activated by paying a one-time rental fee of Rs 1,499, which is valid for 30 days.

To opt for the pack, customers are required to send ACT VROAM as an SMS to 111. The offer is valid until September 30, 2012.

Vodafone India has launched an international roaming pack which offers these services at 60 per cent reduced prices. Customers will not be required to pay multiple rentals while visiting various countries.

This offer is applicable across 40 countries on specific partner networks across the globe. The pack is activated by paying a one-time rental fee of Rs 1,499, which is valid for 30 days.

To opt for the pack, customers are required to send ACT VROAM as an SMS to 111. The offer is valid until September 30, 2012.

According to the leak, itâ€™s a 7-inch, Nexus-branded tablet, built by Asus, with a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, GeForce 12-core GPU and 1GB of RAM with two different storage variants: 8GB and 16GB. It’s called the Nexus 7 and will also feature NFC and run Google Wallet (probably only in the US) and Android Beam.

The screen is an IPS display with a 178-degree viewing angle, running a resolution of 1280 by 800. The device will also sport a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera. The battery will also give you 9 hours worth of operation.

The leaked document says that the device will be the first to run Jelly Bean, the new version of Android. Details are scarce on Jelly Bean, but the slides tell us that Google will handle operating system updates from now on, to lessen fragmentation.

Itâ€™s available from Lenovo for $311.20, making it one the cheapest tablets from a company youâ€™ve heard of that ships with Android 4.0 and Google Certification (which means you get the Google Play Store, Google Maps, Gmail, and other official Google apps). The screen is an IPS display with a 178-degree viewing angle, running a resolution of 1280 by 800. The device will also sport a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera. The battery will also give you 9 hours worth of operation.

Amazon had 6.9% of the market with its Android variant and Barnes & Noble had 4.9%. IDC now expects 2012 ebook reader shipments to be stable at around 28 million units, down slightly from the 28.2 million units that shipped in 2011. IDC is not currently forecasting Windows 8 or Windows RT tablets in its Media Tablet Tracker.

According to Forrester Research, tablets are rapidly becoming the primary device of choice for millions of people around the world. Sales of tablet computers in 2016 are predicted to hit 375 million, and 760 million tablets could be in use worldwide.

According to the leak, itâ€™s a 7-inch, Nexus-branded tablet, built by Asus, with a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, GeForce 12-core GPU and 1GB of RAM with two different storage variants: 8GB and 16GB. It’s called the Nexus 7 and will also feature NFC and run Google Wallet (probably only in the US) and Android Beam.

The screen is an IPS display with a 178-degree viewing angle, running a resolution of 1280 by 800. The device will also sport a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera. The battery will also give you 9 hours worth of operation.

The leaked document says that the device will be the first to run Jelly Bean, the new version of Android. Details are scarce on Jelly Bean, but the slides tell us that Google will handle operating system updates from now on, to lessen fragmentation.

Itâ€™s available from Lenovo for $311.20, making it one the cheapest tablets from a company youâ€™ve heard of that ships with Android 4.0 and Google Certification (which means you get the Google Play Store, Google Maps, Gmail, and other official Google apps). The screen is an IPS display with a 178-degree viewing angle, running a resolution of 1280 by 800. The device will also sport a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera. The battery will also give you 9 hours worth of operation.

Amazon had 6.9% of the market with its Android variant and Barnes & Noble had 4.9%. IDC now expects 2012 ebook reader shipments to be stable at around 28 million units, down slightly from the 28.2 million units that shipped in 2011. IDC is not currently forecasting Windows 8 or Windows RT tablets in its Media Tablet Tracker.

According to Forrester Research, tablets are rapidly becoming the primary device of choice for millions of people around the world. Sales of tablet computers in 2016 are predicted to hit 375 million, and 760 million tablets could be in use worldwide.